Global Courant
The agenda of the Minister of the Interior, now running for senator for Unión por la Patria, this Sunday had a change of expectations. The carousel in its place in the world: Mercedes.
Finally Eduardo “Wado” de Pedro will go for the official list for senator for the Province of Buenos Aires, but “Wado” had another agenda planned for these days, after being anointed -for one day- as Cristina Kirchner’s candidate who finally it was not.
The truth is that this Sunday his schedule of activities was more modest. “We inaugurated a carousel and other improvements in Plaza Belgrano,” wrote the still Minister of the Interior Alberto Fernández, on Twitter. It was in Mercedes, his town, where Juan Ustarroz, his foster brother, governs.
“The best way to celebrate the anniversary of our beloved Mercedes is by working for children.” De Pedro has fields in that town in Buenos Aires, his place in the world and that his reappearance after the imposed decision to lower his presidential candidacy has a hint of nostalgia, refuge and rearming for the campaign that is coming.
The carousel that Wado de Pedro inaugurated in Mercedes. Photo Twitter
Perhaps for this reason, the most senior official that La Cámpora contributed to the Frente de Todos government insisted on the symbolic relevance of the modest municipal inauguration. “A space for families, a meeting place for play and friendship,” he insisted on Twitter.
The “families” had been referenced in the only video he ever published.
In fact, that advertising piece that came to light last Thursday culminated: “I am Wado de Pedro and I want to be president. The president of all Argentine families.”
But in less than 24 hours, Wado would go down his K list -in which there was never any certainty of a formula with Juan Manzur- and go on to be highlighted for his gesture by the new official unity candidate, Sergio Massa, who again say “Wadito” through the networks and remember that the desire of the camper. “You were facing your own challenge,” acknowledged the Minister of Economy and candidate for the Union for the Homeland.
Wado de Pedro in the carousel of politics
Wado de Pedro with his foster brother, Juan Ustarroz, mayor of Mercedes, at the inauguration of a merry-go-round. Photo Twitter
De Pedro had set up a bunker, started to walk the territory as Cristina Kirchner had asked him to consider him the heir of “the decimated generation” and even got to photograph and film himself with his running mate, in material that became unpublished, for anxiety and intrigue of the divers of the archives of what will not be.
Even his communication team, headed by Gustavo Fernández Russo and who marked the formal agenda -one of those that, like Massa, split from the one distributed by the Presidency and Gabriela Cerruti months ago- and also the informal one, the one issued by the already famous Twitter account called La Remisería de la Rosada, from where De Pedro’s collaborators tried to show him close and, especially, make him known, beyond the red circles and militancy.
Wado de Pedro went to the inauguration of a carousel in Mercedes, his place. Photo Twitter
“We almost greeted Messi. We were almost candidates for President,” was the bittersweet post with which they accompanied the withdrawal of Wado’s candidacy, to the disorientation of the toughest militancy of Kirchnerism that, according to the same post, was beginning to “dream.” a “path” for the candidate who was not.
The reference to the idol of the National Team was for that time when, when Lionel Scaloni’s team arrived at Ezeiza, the camper was one of those who tried to steal the photo that the world champion soccer players did not want to give to the Government. De Pedro, with his collaborators, were on the side of the triumphant arrival. The comparison with the swerve of the official formula has, after all, a similarity.
“The merry-go-round has something very significant: it was carried out entirely by municipal workers and work cooperatives. An expression of commitment, dedication, creativity and construction of a better future, carrying out works for the most beautiful thing we have, childhood.” The mayor and relative Ustarroz stood out, in front of the illustrious presence and in a tone of putting mythology to the work.
Now, Pedro’s Wado agenda leaves another metaphor: in short, this Sunday, as in recent days, was a real merry-go-round.
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